Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

[Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org>]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011, at 11:02:40 +0800, Huang, Tao wrote:
> to my understanding, writing with dd on a mounted device leads to
> unpredictable results, and never guarantees to work.

I understand what you mean but it does work 100% of the time on the
versions I mentioned including Lenny, just not Etch where I was wanting
it to or even the current Squeeze release.

> and i think your problem was not caused by differences in dd builds,
> it was different behaviours of the systems on a modified mounted root
> partition.

That makes sense.

Thanks again for your input,

-Mark